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Le'Shana Tova Tikatevu, greeting card from Montevideo, 1932. There are several Jewish and Hebrew greetings, farewells, and phrases that are used in Judaism, and in Jewish and Hebrew-speaking communities around the world. Even outside Israel, Hebrew is an important part of Jewish life. [1]
Shanah Tova (Hebrew: שנה טובה) is a Hebrew children's song written by Levin Kipnis and composed by Nahum Nardi.It was first published in 1923 in Berlin in a collection of songs to Kindergarten teachers called "Hamachrozet" (the string).
A more formal greeting commonly used among religiously observant Jews is Ketivah VaChatimah Tovah (Hebrew: כְּתִיבָה וַחֲתִימָה טוֹבָה ), which translates as "A good inscription and sealing [in the Book of Life]", [55] or L'shanah tovah tikatevu v'techatemu meaning "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year". [56]
Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer/songwriter of enormous talent and integrity who rose to fame in the late ‘80s, died in London on Wednesday at the age of 56. O’Connor’s second album ...
L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim (Hebrew: לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בִּירוּשָלָיִם), lit. " Next year in Jerusalem ", is a phrase that is often sung at the end of the Passover Seder and at the end of the Ne'ila service on Yom Kippur .
Songs of the Vilna Ghetto is a compilation LP record featuring twelve Yiddish songs from World War II era. The songs were composed by the inmates of the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust and are sung by Nechama Hendel, Chava Alberstein, and Shimon Israeli with accompaniment from the CBS Israel Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Gil Aldema.
The author draws from the rabbinic interpretation of the Song of Songs, suggested as linguistically originating in the 3rd century BCE, in which the maiden is seen as a metaphor for an ancient Jewish population residing within Israel's biblical limits, and the lover (dod) is a metaphor for God, and from Nevi'im, which uses the same metaphor. [6]
The song apparently is inspired by Psalm 74:16 ("Yours is the day, Yours is the night") and by a Midrashic passage (Genesis Rabbah 6:2) which enlarges on those words. The authorship and date of composition are unknown, it was originally sung year-round at meals, it was not part of the Seder in the 11th century but came to be part of the Seder ...